Can you keep it going asking ONLY QUESTIONS?

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  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,032 Member
    Who can follow that?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    If that post caused the downfall of this thread, wouldn’t that make it the worst post ever?
  • Cat0703a
    Cat0703a Posts: 17,577 Member
    Do you doubt our inquisitiveness? 😉
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,281 Member
    Haven't we made the strangest story?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,270 Member
    Are we now working on chapter 2?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    Cat0703a wrote: »
    Do you doubt our inquisitiveness? 😉

    Does this mean I can count on you for another 5,147 pages, @Cat0703a ? 🤩
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    edited July 3
    paperpudding wrote: »
    Haven't we made the strangest story?

    Wouldn’t it be even stranger of a story had I not changed out words to family-friendly alternatives in three different places? 😂
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Are we now working on chapter 2?

    Can you imagine all the twists and turns to come?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    edited July 3
    Do you think maybe there are so few questions being asked here now because they’re still reading that crazy long post from that other thread? 😆
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,627 Member
    edited July 3
    As an amateur novelist, is it wrong of me to draw inspiration for storylines from that thread/post?
  • Cat0703a
    Cat0703a Posts: 17,577 Member
    edited July 3
    srazamora wrote: »
    Cat0703a wrote: »
    Do you doubt our inquisitiveness? 😉

    Does this mean I can count on you for another 5,147 pages, @Cat0703a ? 🤩

    Wouldn’t people get tired of me questioning everything??? 😅
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    As an amateur novelist, is it wrong of me to draw inspiration for storylines from that thread/post?

    Is now when I should be finding a lawyer to set up a royalties in perpetuity agreement, @nossmf ? 🧐
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    Cat0703a wrote: »
    srazamora wrote: »
    Cat0703a wrote: »
    Do you doubt our inquisitiveness? 😉

    Does this mean I can count on you for another 5,147 pages, @Cat0703a ? 🤩

    Wouldn’t people get tired of me questioning everything??? 😅

    Do you honestly think we could ever tire of you, @Cat0703a ? 😨
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,627 Member
    srazamora wrote: »
    Is now when I should be finding a lawyer to set up a royalties in perpetuity agreement, @nossmf ? 🧐

    Can't I guarantee you would spend more money on the lawyer than you would earn in royalties off my sorry writing "career"? Do you know how much profit I have made through the sale of 225 copies of my first novel? If you said more than $100, mind if I start laughing? Any guesses how long it'll be before I quit my day job and devote myself to writing full time? Mind keeping those guesses to yourself, so I don't break down in tears?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,270 Member
    Why does this remind me so much of my career in art?
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    nossmf wrote: »
    srazamora wrote: »
    Is now when I should be finding a lawyer to set up a royalties in perpetuity agreement, @nossmf ? 🧐

    Can't I guarantee you would spend more money on the lawyer than you would earn in royalties off my sorry writing "career"? Do you know how much profit I have made through the sale of 225 copies of my first novel? If you said more than $100, mind if I start laughing? Any guesses how long it'll be before I quit my day job and devote myself to writing full time? Mind keeping those guesses to yourself, so I don't break down in tears?

    Are you telling me you earned less than $1 per copy you sold, @nossmf ? How is that not considered outright robbery?!
  • srazamora
    srazamora Posts: 4,499 Member
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Why does this remind me so much of my career in art?

    Why does this comment make me so sad? 😢 Was is hard to continue to find passion in making art when you counted on it to make a living, @AdahPotatah2024 ?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,627 Member
    srazamora wrote: »
    Are you telling me you earned less than $1 per copy you sold, @nossmf ? How is that not considered outright robbery?!

    While I likely would have made more through a traditional publisher, isn't it far harder to turn a profit when self-publishing and accepting all the costs of production which come with? Isn't this why I'm hoping to get my second book published traditionally (and possibly get a re-release of my first book through the same medium)?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,270 Member
    Was is hard to continue to find passion in making art when you counted on it to make a living?

    Could I answer with a yes and a no since I was completely burnt out by portrait photography, while I continue to love painting? Do you think the Habitat for Humanity will ever start refusing my boxes of donated paintings!?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,032 Member
    Haiku Hijinks, anyone?

    Although I'm thinking
    the answer is obvious,
    what is the question?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,032 Member
    frankwbrown wrote: »
    Haiku Hijinks, anyone?

    Although I'm thinking
    the answer is obvious,
    what is the question?

    I sit here thinking
    the answer is obvious,
    but what's the question?

    Which is better, or are they equally bad?

  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,281 Member
    You are so clever
    Writing such beautiful prose
    Can I join up too?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,270 Member
    Aren't haiku poems supposed to include rhyming/ describing nature?
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,627 Member
    Are you not aware haiku strictly speaks about the number of syllables per line of the poem, without restricting/recommending the content of the poem?
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,032 Member
    edited July 6
    AdahPotatah2024 wrote: »
    Aren't haiku poems supposed to include rhyming/ describing nature?

    While they are often about nature, can't they be about anything?
    And isn't the requirement not that they rhyme, but that traditionally they be three lines consisting of 5 syllables, 7 syllables and 5 syllables?
    Don't contemporary haiku often enough break even this rule regarding syllables?
    Can you imagine the fun I had in my first programming class, being given an assignment to write a program that generated haiku from several lists of words? 😂
  • paperpudding
    paperpudding Posts: 9,281 Member
    Write about nature
    If you wish.Poets do. But
    Isn't that boring?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,270 Member
    Why,why haiku poets
    Do you not include rhyming?
    Frightened you'll go nuts? 🤪
  • frankwbrown
    frankwbrown Posts: 13,032 Member
    Would thinking of rhymes
    with syllables on my mind
    put me in a bind? 🤪
  • nossmf
    nossmf Posts: 11,627 Member
    edited July 7
    AdahPotatah,
    Why do you require rhyming?
    Why not let it go?
  • AdahPotatah2024
    AdahPotatah2024 Posts: 2,270 Member
    edited July 8
    Mr. Nossmf,
    Is not this a rebellion
    Against poetry?

    Do these poetries
    Written in English sound worse
    Than in Japanese???

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